What a neat bread to celebrate one year of bread baking goodness! The Bread Baking Babes & Buddies have been baking a bread a month for 12 straight months, and while I haven't been able to make them all, each one I've made has been a winner. This one is no exception - all-purpose flour, oat flour, whole wheat flour, rye flour, and brown rice flour - whew! Throw walnuts in there, and you've got one heck of a substantial loaf of bread. It might even qualify as a health food. Which would mean it's okay that I ate a quarter of a loaf in two days, right?
It was an interesting one to knead too. Due to the oat, rye, and brown rice flours, gluten development was only so-so. It rose, yes, but then deflated a bit in the oven rather than having any tremendous oven spring. Not that my sub-par apartment oven is very good at coaxing oven spring out of breads, but there's always hope, right? But it smelled absolutely fabulous, and after having some plain, some toasted, and some with peanut butter, I'm already dreaming of smearing it with some homemade pear preserves from my mom.
Thanks to this month's host Tanna and the rest of the Bread Baking Babes for letting me bake along with them! You can find the recipe here. And here's to another fabulous year!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
BBB: Five Grain Bread with Walnuts
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11 comments:
Way to go caitlin, this looks so good. It's just a breda packed with good grain and healthy nuts!
Thanks for baking with us this month!
Way to bake it up Caitlin! It's hard to think healthy when it tastes so good ;)
Wonderful to have you bake with us again!
Definitely it qualifies as health food, and if you only ate a quarter then you are a model of self-control! :)
So happy that it turned out so well for you, I agree about the peanut butter combo too - yum!
Oh dang. Breaking out the mother's preserves for a big hearty whole grain loaf. Good idea.
Oh my gosh does this bread sound fabulous! I love your "bread 4 ways": plain, toasted, pb'ed, and preserved. Sounds about right! Now I know this bread must be stellar!
this loaf is awesome. I consider it a healthy option. well surely better than all the cupcakes I make :) Wish I could taste this bread looks delicious :)
Your bread looks delicious. It looks perfect for sandwiches (or PB like you say). I love the smell of baking bread.
Caitlin, this is absolutely a lovely loaf of bread! We are so glad you enjoy baking with us because we sure enjoy your results!
Just pulled the loaves out of the oven, which explains why I'm still awake at 3 am. I'm very glad that it looks similar to yours. Now I can go to sleep.
Mmmmm I want some of this bread smeared with peanut butter! Looks like that's going to be my pre-workout snack tonight! Your bread looks great!!!
Yum - this looks so good. So grainy and hearty.
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